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Nyayo House, Nairobi) Seattle University School of Law Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation I. Core TJRC Related Documents Commission of Kenya 2-28-2011 Public Hearing Transcripts - Nairobi - RTJRC28.02 (Nyayo House, Nairobi) Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/tjrc-core Recommended Citation Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission, "Public Hearing Transcripts - Nairobi - RTJRC28.02 (Nyayo House, Nairobi)" (2011). I. Core TJRC Related Documents. 45. https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/tjrc-core/45 This Report is brought to you for free and open access by the The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission of Kenya at Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in I. Core TJRC Related Documents by an authorized administrator of Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ORAL SUBMISSIONS MADE TO THE TRUTH, JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION ON TUESDAY, THE 28 TH FEBRUARY, 2012, AT NYAYO HOUSE, NAIROBI PRESENT Gertrude Chawatama - The Presiding Chair, Zambia Tecla Namachanja Wanjala - The Acting Chair, Kenya Berhanu Dinka - Commissioner, Ethiopia Tom Chavangi - Leader of Evidence (National Anthem and Prayer) (The Commission commenced at 10.30 a.m.) (The Presiding Chair (Commissioner Chawatama) introduced the Acting Chair, fellow Commissioner and herself) The Presiding Chair (Commissioner Chawatama): Good morning, we shall remain standing for the national anthem and the Commission prayer and after that we will observe a minute of silence in honour for those who died from torture. Thank you. (The Commission observed a minute’s silence) On behalf of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC), we wish to welcome you to today’s hearing. I must say that these are special hearings today in the sense that I believe that this is the first time, as a Commission, we have had an opportunity to sit at the site where violations that we are going to talk about today had taken place. It was befitting that we observe a minute of silence for the lives that have been lost through torture. It is also befitting that we observe a minute of silence in support of the survivors of torture and their families. We are very happy as a Commission to be here today. We know that issues of torture have been before the courts of Kenya. We are also aware that the courts have awarded some Kenyans. But as a Commission, it is important to have these hearings today because we are tasked to come up with a complete and accurate historical record. If these hearings do not take place, there would be a part of the history of this nation that would be left unrecorded. It is also befitting that these hearings are held because of recommendations that we will make as a Commission; which recommendations are mandatory and which are going to be implemented. Justice will be served and as a Commission, we are committed to the work that we are doing and we want to assure the victims, not only of torture, but other victims that we are committed to this process. Nyayo House, Nairobi 1 Tuesday, 28 th February, 2012 With me today on this panel are two Commissioners; there will be two other Commissioners who will join us. You will be interested to know that seven per cent of the 2,843 statements we received as a Commission were on torture. We received 696 statements from females and 2, 47 from the male. From Nyayo House, we received 24 statements, but the number is much more because there are many who did not record statements and they are many others who are related to people who were tortured and whom we did not have an opportunity to get statements from. The other statements came from those who were alleged to have been involved in the coup’d’état and their number was 158. We will observe a few rules as we sit here; we will observe silence and listen quietly to the testimonies of the witnesses. We will switch off our mobile phones because they disturb the equipment for recording these proceedings. I am sure you are aware that in a lot of instances witnesses do break down. As a Commission, we will allow for these with a lot of respect and we will give such witnesses an opportunity to compose themselves. Please co-operate with us because the testimonies which we will be given today will not be easy for these witnesses. We beg your indulgence to afford the witnesses the respect that is due to them, as Kenyans and as fellow human beings. We would like to thank the witnesses in advance for being courageous enough to come and speak to us; we acknowledge the pain that will accompany your testimonies. We thank you in the same way, Leader of Evidence. We are ready to proceed with the first witness. Thank you very much. Mr. Tom Chavangi : Thank you Presiding Chair and your fellow Commissioners. The first witness is Mr. Kang’ethe Mungai, who will speak on issues of human rights and how he was arrested, tortured and jailed for about 12 years on allegations that he was a member of an illegal group. He has worked extensively with torture victims and survivors. He will also speak on issue of torture that has visited him as a result of this. Thank you very much. (Mr. Kang’ethe Mungai took the oath) Mr. Tom Chavangi : For the record purposes, kindly state your name again. Mr. Kang’ethe Mungai : My name is Kang’ethe Mungai . Mr. Tom Chavangi : Mr. Mungai, what do you do currently? Nyayo House, Nairobi 2 Tuesday, 28 th February, 2012 Mr. Kang’ethe Mungai : I work as a human rights consultant currently, and also a volunteer in human rights centres in Kenya. Mr. Tom Chavangi : Presiding Chair and Commissioners, Mr. Kang’ethe Mungai is the last witness in the list of witness on the cause list, after lunch break. But we decided to bring him first, because of the issues that he is going to articulate. Mr. Kang’ethe Mungai, are you aware of what has brought you here? Mr. Kang’ethe Mungai : Yes. Mr. Tom Chavangi : What you had gone through, that is torture and detention during the previous regime. Mr. Kang’ethe Mungai : Yes. Mr. Tom Chavangi : Kindly, would you state to the Commissioners in a very brief manner how these issues were brought to you and how they were perpetrated. Mr. Kang’ethe Mungai : Yes. Mr. Tom Chavangi : Thank you very much. Mr. Kang’ethe Mungai : Honourable Commissioners, it all started when I was a university student. At university we were very concerned about the depression that was taking place in the country. So, we decided to do something about it and we started organizing with people outside the university. Some of the people we were working with very closely were my three brothers; Waweru Mungai, Guchache Mungai who is late now and Doge Mungai. Also there were my other very close relatives like Mungai wa Ruiru, my nephew, who died in Kamiti Maximum Prison. Gitau Nduati was later jailed for seven years and my uncle Njoroge Wanguthi who was later tortured here and jailed. We organized and formed an organization called “ Muungano wa Wazalendo wa Kuikomboa Kenya ” in short Mwakenya. Before that, there was an organization called the December, 12 Movement. So, what we were handling basically was that we set out to educate the Kenyan people about what was happening in the country and what they could do to make this country a nation that respects human rights and that allows freedom of its own people. Mr. Tom Chavangi : Sorry! Hon. Commissioners, Muungano wa Wazalendo wa Kuikomboa Kenya; for the purposes of our foreign Commissioners is a grouping of nationalists for the purposes of liberating Kenya. I was just keen on that interpretation. Nyayo House, Nairobi 3 Tuesday, 28 th February, 2012 The Presiding Chair (Commissioner Chawatama): Before you can proceed; Leader of Evidence, the Acting Chair needs some clarification. The Acting Chair (Commissioner Namachanja): Thank you. I thought also the last words of the witness were not translated into Kiswahili. Maybe after this translation, it can just go backwards, the sentences that he made before you we came in. Mr. Tom Chavangi : Okay. Very well Commissioners, it is understood. Mr. Mungai, before you said Mwakenya , there is something else you said. Can you say it again it for purposes of translation The Presiding Chair (Commissioner Chawatama): I can remind the witness. He said: “We set out to educate Kenyans on what was going on and---” Mr. Kang’ethe Mungai : We set out to educate our people on what was going on in the country and what they could do to make this country a nation that respects human rights and allows the freedom of its own people, especially the democratic freedom which was lacking in this country. The Presiding Chair (Commissioner Chawatama): I am so sorry. We do not have problem with that now. You may continue. Mr. Kang’ethe Mungai : The newspapers, airwaves; the radios and television were not free; they were all controlled very tightly by the regime of that time, the KANU regime. So, we went out to create publications that were to speak freely about what was going on in the country and one of these publications was Mpatanishi, which was for our own internal education; educating the cadres of the struggle. Then there was another one for mass consumption which was called Pambana. Pambana was something that we were writing and distributing all over the country so that people could know the truth that was happening.
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